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• It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.…
• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…
• As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
• Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…
• Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…
• The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like…
• Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over…
• Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve…

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